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Medical Astrology: Moon Fever and Diseases Sent from the Skies
... astrology are probably the Mesopotamian civilizations of Sumer, Babylon, and Assyria. Mesopotamian astrologers tried ...
Caleb Strom - 29/12/2017 - 22:55
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The Significance of Planetary Harmony: Creating Megalithic Structures Through Music
Over the last 7,000 years, hunter-gathering humans have been transformed into the 'modern' norms of city dwellers through a series of metamorphoses during which the intellect developed ever-larger descriptions of the world. Past civilizations and even some tribal groups have left wonders in their wake, a result of uncanny skills - mental and physical - that, being hard to repeat today, cannot be considered primitive.
Richard Heath - 25/06/2018 - 15:10
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Walking the Waves: Celestial Puns Resolve the Conflicting Accounts of Jesus’ Sea-Walk Miracle
In part one, we noted that the evangelists had set out to compile a record of Jesus’ life forty to sixty years after his crucifixion, a time when there was no eyewitness testimony left to draw from. They did embrace, however, three arcane tenets that elucidate the basis for the Sea-Walk miracle.
John McHugh - 19/12/2018 - 22:57
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The Rediscovery of Urkesh: Forgotten City of the Hurrians
... from 3,400-year-old cuneiform tablets The Rise and Fall of Sumer and Akkad The Fierce Amorites and the First King of the ...
Bryan Hill - 24/06/2015 - 03:31
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Parallel Twin Ziggurats: The Tower of Babel and Pyramid of Cholula
... language. They migrated west into the region of Shinar ( Sumer or modern day Iraq) and they were determined to build a ... it with the mysterious ziggurats of ancient Babylon and Sumer. This is quite logical due to the fact that the cities ... in Uruk is an example of a simple ziggurat from ancient Sumer. It’s purpose was to bring the temple closer to the ...
Mark A. Carpenter - 13/02/2021 - 21:42
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The rediscovery of ‘Noah’, a 6,500-year-old skeleton, who survived a Great Flood
... The first known recorded story of a great flood comes from Sumer, now southern Iraq, and it is generally believed to be ...
aprilholloway - 06/08/2014 - 14:48
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World’s Oldest Pearl Found in Abu Dhabi is 8,000-Years-Old!
Archaeologists in Abu Dhabi have found an 8,000-year-old pearl - the world’s most ancient specimen.
ashley cowie - 21/10/2019 - 18:47
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Kuh-e Alvand: Searching for the True Mountain of Noah and his Ark
Kuh-e Alvand is Persian for Mount Alvand. Located in the Zagros mountains near the city of Hamadan in northwestern Iran at map coordinates 34.664167, 48.486667, the elevation of Alvand is 3,580 meters or 11,750 feet, making it one of the tallest mountains in this ancient region.
bjcorbin - 09/12/2015 - 21:48
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Maikop ‘Scepters’ Are Actually the World’s Oldest Drinking Straws
An exciting new study from Russia has reinterpreted an 1897 find of silver and gold tubes from a Bronze Age burial mound in Maikop in the northern Caucasus as being straws rather than scepters as previously believed. At over 5,000 years old, this makes them the oldest drinking straws to have been found so far.
Sahir - 19/01/2022 - 00:00
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Abrupt Climate Change May Have Rocked the Cradle of Civilization
... study. Civilizations out of Nowhere The Rise and Fall of Sumer and Akkad Scholars rethink the beginnings of ...
ancient-origins - 10/08/2015 - 23:59
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Deciphering the Patterns of the Royal Game of Ur Board - Part 1
... for this article, a board from the Royal Tombs of Ur in Sumer – or Mesopotamia, of which Sumer was an early southern part, is a first-generation ...
Niels Bjerre Jorgensen - 04/03/2020 - 19:01
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Origins
... be pure speculation. Bear in mind that by the 'time' of Sumer, humans had already conquered and reconquered each ...
William E. Shaw - 11/12/2016 - 23:42
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Artificial Intelligence Inching Closer to Deciphering Long Lost Languages
With new technology available to us, we’re inching closer to the end of the days when deciphering ancient languages is a painstaking task filled with frustration and confusion. Nifty machines following complex algorithms are helping researchers around the globe as they take on the often monumental task of understanding ancient texts and lost languages.
Alicia McDermott - 21/07/2019 - 15:03
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The Hidden Identity of the Woman Glorified as Athena: Her Link to the Pre-Flood World
Here is that woman in all her splendor, reconstructed in the imitation Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee, based on the original in her ancient temple atop Athens’ Acropolis—the high place of the city. Athena is a title or epithet. We’ll find out her real human name as we continue.
Robert Bowie Johnson - 24/08/2017 - 17:27
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The Forgotten Ancient Kingdom of Ebla
Spectacular things were happening in Mesopotamia in the period we call the Early Bronze Age, particularly in the southern part of it, commonly called Babylonia. It was here that the wealthy, sophisticated Sumerian civilization developed, its growth and prosperity greatly spurred by the invention of writing. A magnificent assortment of beautifully wrought items, like those unearthed from the so-called royal tombs of Ur and now on display in the British Museum, testifies to the high level of craftsmanship of the Sumerian civilization at its zenith.
ancient-origins - 31/03/2021 - 18:26
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Uruk: Ancient Civilization Archaeological Superstar Status
Uruk, in southern Iraq, has reached superstar status in the realm of archaeological excavations of ancient civilizations by delivering the Sumerian King Lists among the 5,000 cuneiform tablets discovered there; it is also the place where the first potter’s wheel was designed; and it is the setting for the mythological or legendary Sumerian king Gilgamesh, immor
micki pistorius - 08/09/2023 - 22:35
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Keeping it Clean: A Look at Ancient Hygiene Practices (Video)
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The Civilizations of Ancient Mesopotamia Explained (Video)
Robbie Mitchell - 06/03/2024 - 19:56
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Deciphering Cuneiform to Get a Handle on Life in Ancient Mesopotamia
Cuneiform is a system of writing that was invented by the Sumerians of ancient Mesopotamia. Believed to have been created sometime during the 4th millennium BC (between 3500 and 3000 BC), this script is regarded as the earliest known form of writing. Cuneiform became an unreadable script as its use came to an end. Nevertheless, this writing system has been preserved in the archaeological record, thanks mainly due to the clay tablets they were written on.
dhwty - 25/04/2019 - 23:54
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The Gutians - Babylon's Brutal Barbarians (Video)
... of the Akkadian Empire and subsequent desolation of Sumer, they are depicted as relentless nomadic raiders. The ... suggest a turbulent era marked by Gutian ascendency in Sumer , notably during the reign of Uruk's king, Utu-hegal. ...
Robbie Mitchell - 21/03/2024 - 19:55